What it ’s like to be in sleep medicine: Shadowing Dr. Chervin

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it ’s like to be a sleep specialist? Here’s your chance to find out. Meet Ron Chervin, MD, a sleep specialist and featured physician inAMA Wire ’s®“Shadow Me” Specialty Series, which offers advice directly from physicians about life in their specialties. Read his insights to help determine whether a career in sleep medicine might be a good fit for you.“Shadowing” Dr. ChervinSpecialty: Sleep medicinePractice setting: Academic medical centerYears in practice: 22A typical day in my practice: I usually arrive at my office by about 8:20 a.m., after I drop my kids off at school, and I typically leave my office between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. Sometimes there is then an hour or two of email to catch up on from home in the evening. On weekends, I often work one additional short day, for about six hours. During my time at work, I have a varied portfolio that includes seeing my own patients with sleep disorders, assisting sleep medicine fellows in seeing their patients and reviewing sleep studies with fellows to teach them how to interpret the data and provide optimal patient care. I spend a substantial portion of my time —typically one-third or more of my work hours over the past two decades—on clinical sleep research, which means managing teams of staff members and collaborators, as well as analyzing and reporting data or writing new grant applications. I also spend many hours on administrative issues for a lar ge academ...
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